In 1964 I was commissioned a second lieutenant and navigator in the U.S. Air Force. I was assigned to the Strategic Air Command, and my first training assignment was to the Arctic Survival Escape & Evasion School at Stead AFB, Reno, Nev. ...more

May 14, 2009

When Michelle Venezia ran onto the stage, she clutched a lanyard with a photo of her late classmate Andrew Altringer. ...more

March 27, 2009

Forget religious preferences or racial divides. What you consider safe for your child is the single-most divisive issue facing parents. ...more

February 24, 2009

The University of South Florida associate vice president caught on a security tape taking a student's bicycle has rescinded his resignation from USF. ...more

February 20, 2009

"John Lennon: The Life," by Philip Norman (Ecco, $35) ...more

January 11, 2009

The History of Rails Regarding "Trains Could Save Car Manufacturers" (Letters, Jan. 3) by Dianne Agster: ...more

January 10, 2009

The light bulb of inspiration is appearing over the heads of more and more Pasco residents who realize they can recycle burned-out compact fluorescent light bulbs and standard fluorescent bulbs. ...more

November 12, 2008

Health Care Conundrum Re: Health care costly issue for candidates in the Oct. 7 edition of Hernando Today. ...more

October 16, 2008

Theater is an exercise in manipulation of the senses. The actors and audience are at each other's mercy for what is seen, heard and felt. The question becomes, then: Are these responses grounded in reality or illusion? ...more

August 31, 2008

in the era of erectile-dysfunction television commercials or teenage girls extolling the latest in cardboard-applicator tampons - we still don't quite know how to advertise something as simple as toilet paper. That whole area remains the great conundrum of Madison Avenue, which is how we wound up with singing toilets that just got superscrubbed and the Ty-D-Bol man and the depiction of any and all bodily fluids as being bright blue. All sorts of anthropomorphic creatures populate the throne room in lieu of frank talk. For a long time, to demonstrate how wonderful toilet paper is, people in commercials rubbed it against their ... faces. ...more

November 23, 2007